Clarification on the terminology for input...

[Jens Petersen]

> One thing is not yet very much clear to me yet is, difference between "Input Method Map" and "Input Method Table".
> Could you please try to explain it a bit more in detail. 

It is probably a bit Linux/ibus/scim specific: m17n has maps whereas scim-tables and ibus-table use a different simpler linear format which is compiled to a binaries table which can be efficient for very large tables of chinese characters, etc.

Jens